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Wild celery

noun

Herb of Europe and temperate Asia. Synonym: Apium graveolens.

Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia. Synonyms: eelgrass, tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis.

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... DROPWORT.—Eleven French prisoners had the liberty of walking in and about the town of Pembroke; three of them being in the fields a little before noon, found and dug up a large quantity of this plant with its roots, which they took to be wild celery, to eat with their bread and butter for dinner. After washing it a while in the fields they all three ate, or rather ...

— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury

Words linked to "Wild celery" : water plant, hydrophyte, tape grass, genus Apium, genus Vallisneria, aquatic plant, herb, Vallisneria, hydrophytic plant, herbaceous plant, Apium